Excerpt from Die Blinden: Novelle Gifted by nature with health and vigor, with the delight in story-telling, trained and guided by the most kindly circumstances, Heyse became a very productive writer. Success was soon his and for many years he was one of the three or four most popular of German novelists. For a time popular favor has waned relatively, but his best works still hold their own among the most widely read of the last half of the nineteenth century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.